{"id":569,"date":"2011-06-10T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/?p=569"},"modified":"2011-07-26T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T15:00:00","slug":"oliver-goldsmiths-history-of-the-earth-and-animated-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/2011\/06\/10\/oliver-goldsmiths-history-of-the-earth-and-animated-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Goldsmith&#8217;s History of the Earth and Animated Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldtig1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-570 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldtig1-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldbugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-571\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldbugs-158x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldbugs-158x300.jpg 158w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldbugs.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldfish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-572\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldfish-164x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldfish-164x300.jpg 164w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldfish.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldmollusks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-573\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldmollusks-145x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldmollusks-145x300.jpg 145w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/goldmollusks.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engravings like these posed problems for the theory of separate creation for at least two reasons. They suggested that biological flora and fauna were much more diverse and widespread than had been previously imagined, and they pointed out remarkable similarities among creatures of different types, even across wide generic boundaries. It was curious enough that all insects had six legs. Even more significantly, all creatures with eyes tended to have two eyes, one on either side of the head. That suggested not only a pattern, but perhaps a common origin..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engravings like these posed problems for the theory of separate creation for at least two reasons. They suggested that biological flora and fauna were much more diverse and widespread than had been previously imagined, and they pointed out remarkable similarities &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/2011\/06\/10\/oliver-goldsmiths-history-of-the-earth-and-animated-nature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33105],"tags":[2745,33110,2220],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-topics","tag-animals","tag-natural-history","tag-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}